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Do you see something relevant in /var/log/Xorg.0.log* or in dmesg when the system doesn't start?

Hi, maybe I don't know what to look at, I didn't find anything informative from dmesg or the log. In the log the last line was unloadmodule vesa, maybe that shouldn't be happening? It also complained that it couldn't find the Nvidia module and the "nv" module but I suppose that was normal (since they have not been installed)

in the first post you mentioned frozenbyte games support, but those games still wont work with those drivers enabled. trine wont start and shadowgrounds is unbearable slow..... is it broken again? (radeon 3850)

in the first post you mentioned frozenbyte games support, but those games still wont work with those drivers enabled. trine wont start and shadowgrounds is unbearable slow..... is it broken again? (radeon 3850)

Try updating xserver-xorg-video-nouveau to 0.0.16+git1109021401.169512~gd~n (it should take some hours before the build is ready). I disabled a couple of old Ubuntu patches that should be no longer needed.